Republicans are not on the side of liberty and privacy. So emphasizing that he's a republican makes the case even more strongly.

You can argue that this shouldn't be about politics, but how many years of living under an authoritarian government do you need?

Everything is about politics now.

tedggh an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I grew up under an authoritarian government. The US is not an authoritarian government.

	▲	SmirkingRevenge 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Better to say the current US government is run by authoritarians, doing everything they can to convert the US government into an authoritarian one. And they've gotten way farther than they should. We're a backsliding democracy, and risk backsliding into fully consolidated autocracy, unless we mount effective resistance.

"Republicans are not on the side of liberty and privacy."

Moronic generalisation.